Blogs from Caribbean, Oceans and Seas - page 15

It has been a busy cruise. A new director came on this week, so I’ve been training her. She’s great though and I’m actually excited to leave and let her do her thing now. And while I am very much looking forward to heading to the Triumph and seeing people there, I’m leaving great people behind here. One of the best parts of doing multiple contracts are meeting up with friends you know from previous ships. I’ve been able to spend some great time here with my friend Jason, who I know from the Destiny. It’s also been so good to see Moira and Dana again. The Camp Carnival team here is super, such sweet girls. I’ll miss them. Though it’s only been a few weeks that I’ve known them, I’ve spent a lot of time ... read more

Saturday, November 22, 2008 You know those stories you hear from people and you ask yourself, “How does that even happen? How dumb can you be?” Well, after yesterday, I will no longer be asking myself that. It happens . . . Sean and I are supposed to be on a cruise ship right now approaching Haiti, and instead we are currently at Newark Airport waiting for our flight to the Dominican Republic - yes, in order to catch up to our cruise ship. The good news - we are currently laughing about it and believe it or not, there were very few tears because seriously, how dumb can we be? Yesterday was Friday, Nov. 21. Sean spent the day working at home, and I spent the day running errands and cleaning the apartment for our ... read more

I have decided to start a travel blog to track my footsteps around the globe. I travel for a living. Working as an art auctioneer on cruise ships, I can make my own hours, so of course I never work when we are in port. This is my time to discover the land... From now on I will write about my adventures in each of the various ports I travel too. I will also add pictures to each blog. SCRIPT charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822/US/myfootst-20/8001/8c2efba1-7549-4baf-af14-2af17eac4f0e" /SCRIPT NOSCRIPTA HREF="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fmyfootst-20%2F8001%2F8c2efba1-7549-4baf-af14-2af17eac4f0e&Operation=NoScript"Amazon.com Widgets/A/NOSCRIPT I hope you enjoy this blog! ...Until next time...... read more

Monday December 21...do they know it's Christmas time? Evidently here on Cayman, they know it better than most places! I think the address is 389 South Church Street. This road changes names a lot but it goes pretty much all the way around the island. This particular place is right across the street from Sunset House, which is where Cathy Church's photography shop is (more on that in a bit). The light display is simply incredible. There's no way to describe this fully so watch the videos. They're short. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATiB5-OO1hQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8IuhLjOWww http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7xwj2pT-mU They have every kind of light-encrusted animal from penguins to flamingos, all the moving ones like deer and polar bears, they have a dozen moving Santas (and one REAL one!!), a Ferris wheel, and literally hundreds of strings of lights ever... read more

We arrived safely Saturday and stayed one night at the Westin Casaurina resort & spa. Pretty much just your decent hotel room. I've gotten so spoiled staying in time share condos! We had to get an airbed for Sam and it took them over two hours to bring it after I'd asked for it, and, it was HUGE...easily a queen sized, and it was very thick as well, thicker than my mattress at home. Sam was very comfortable, to say the least! Activities Saturday included the grocery store run (they are closed Sundays so everyone needs to go on arrival and check in), liquor store (we needed to go to two because the first one didn't have "my" rum stocked, oh horror, but Mom saved the day at the Tortuga store), and of course some pool ... read more